Jeanne Julia Bartet
French actress (1854–1941)
Julia Bartet was the stage name of Jeanne-Julie Regnault (28 October 1854 – 18 November 1941), a French actress. After training at the Paris Conservatoire she began her professional career in 1872, and from 1880 to her retirement in 1920 she was a leading member of the Comédie-Française. Her range was wide, and she appeared in classic plays and modern drama, in comedy and tragedy.
Life and career
Early years
Bartet was born Jeanne-Julie Regnault on 20 October 1854 in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.
She studied at the Paris Conservatoire under the prominent actor and teacher François-Joseph Regnier. She won the conservatoire's second prize for comedy in 1872 and made her first professional stage appearance in October of that year, adopting the stage name Bartet to avoid confusion with the established star actress Alice Regnault. Her first role was Vivette in the first production of Daudet 's L'Arlesienne at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, Paris.
During the 1870s her other roles included Marguerite in Sardou's Les Ganaches (1874); Manon in Manon Lescaut (1875); Fanny Merson in Émile Augier's Madame Caverlet (1876); Comtesse Zicka in Dora (1877) and leading parts in Les Bourgeois de Pont-Arcy (1878); Montjoye (1879) and Les Tapageurs (1879).
Her portrait was painted by Aimé Morot in 1881 and is at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
Comédie-Française
In 1879 Bartet was engaged by the Comédie-Française, where she made her début on 16 February 1880, as Léa in Sardou's Daniel Rochat; later in that year she took over from Sarah Bernhardt as the Queen in Ruy Blas.
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